Since 2010 the band has been on hiatus, with its members performing in other projects and making guest appearances. Chad Gray is the singer for the heavy-metal supergroupHellyeah, to which Greg Tribbett also belonged until 2014. Gray founded an independent record label, Bullygoat Records, which produces heavy-metal albums. In early 2015, Chad Gray noted that the band's return at the moment seems very unlikely, unless "everybody licked their wounds and got over it".[19]

During the EP's recording Barclay was replaced by Ryan Martinie, former bassist for the progressive-rock band Broken Altar.[23] After self-distributing Kill, I Oughtta,[20][21] Mudvayne adopted stage names and face paint.[21][24][25]

L.D. 50 peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard Top Heatseekers chart and No. 85 on the Billboard 200.[30] The singles "Dig" and "Death Blooms" peaked at No. 33 and No. 32 on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.[30] Although the album was praised,[31] some critics found the band hard to take seriously.[32]

To promote L. D. 50, Mudvayne played on the Tattoo the Earth tour with Nothingface, Slayer, Slipknot and Sevendust. Nothingface guitarist Tom Maxwell became friends with Mudvayne vocalist Chad Gray, and they explored the possibility of a supergroup. The following year, Nothingface again toured with Mudvayne; although plans for a supergroup continued, they were put on hold due to scheduling conflicts. Gray and Maxwell had discussed five names for the group, and Mudvayne guitarist Greg Tribbett approached Maxwell "out of the blue" to join it. Although Nothingface drummer Tommy Sickles played on the group's demo, the search for another drummer began.[33]

In 2002 Mudvayne released The End of All Things to Come, which the band considers its "black album" due to its largely-black artwork.[34] Isolation inspired the album's songs.[35] During its mixing, Gray and McDonough stopped at Bob's Big Boy and Gray remembered overhearing someone "say something like, ' ... and he's got to cut his own eye out'". When he asked McDonough if he heard the conversation McDonough said he hadn't, and Gray thought it was someone discussing a scene from a screenplay.[36]

The album expanded on L.D. 50, with a wider range of riffs, tempos, moods and vocals.[27] Because of this experimentation, Entertainment Weekly called this album more "user-friendly" than its predecessor[37] and it was one of 2002's most acclaimed heavy-metal albums.[38] The music video for the single "Not Falling" demonstrated the Mudvayne's change in appearance from L. D. 50, with the musicians transformed into veined creatures with white, egg-colored bug eyes.[39]

In 2003 Mudvayne participated in the Summer Sanitarium Tour, headlined by Metallica,[35] and in September Chad Gray appeared on V Shape Mind's debut studio album Cul-De-Sac.[40] The following year the band began work on its third album, produced by Dave Fortman.[35][41] As for the previous album, Mudvayne withdrew to write songs; they moved into a house, writing the album in four months before recording began.[35][42] In February Gray and Martinie expressed an interest in appearing on Within The Mind - In Homage To The Musical Legacy Of Chuck Schuldiner, a tribute to the founder of the metal band Death,[43] but the album was never produced.

In August former Mudvayne bassist Shawn Barclay released his band Sprung's debut album, mastered by King's X guitarist Ty Tabor.[20] That month rumors spread that Bullygoat Records would release We Pay Our Debt Sometimes: A Tribute to Alice In Chains, with performances by Mudvayne, Cold, Audioslave, Breaking Benjamin, Static-X and the surviving members of Alice in Chains. A spokesperson for Alice in Chains told the press that the band was unaware of any tribute album, and Mudvayne's manager said that reports of the album were only rumors.[45]

In September the band met with director Darren Lynn Bousman, whose film Saw II was in production and would include "Forget to Remember" from Lost and Found. Bousman showed them a scene of a man cutting his eye out of his skull to retrieve a key. When Gray told Bousman about the conversation at Bob's Big Boy two years earlier, Bousman said he holds his production meetings at the restaurant and Saw II was based on a screenplay he wrote years earlier.[36] Gray appeared briefly in the film, and the music video for "Forget to Remember" contained clips from Saw II.[36]

In 2006, Gray, Tribbett and Tom Maxwell were joined by former Pantera and Damageplan drummer Vinnie Paul for the supergroup Hellyeah. On March 8, when Mudvayne and Korn performed at the KBPI Birthday Bash in Denver, Thornton waitress Nicole LaScalia was injured during Mudvayne's set.[13] Two years later, LaScalia filed a lawsuit against radio-station owner Clear Channel Broadcasting, concert promoter Live Nation, the University of Denver and members of Mudvayne and Korn.[13] During the summer, Gray, Tribbett, Maxwell and Paul recorded an album as Hellyeah.[46] After a tour with Sevendust, Mudvayne released the 2007 retrospective By the People, for the People (compiled from selections chosen by fans on the band's website).[47] The album debuted at number 51 on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart, selling about 22,000 copies in its first week.[36][48]

After Gray and Tribbett returned from touring with Hellyeah, Mudvayne began recording The New Game with Dave Fortman.[49] After the album's 2008 release, Fortman told MTV that it would be followed in six months by another full-length record.[50]

In 2010 Mudvayne again paused to allow Gray and Tribbett to tour with Hellyeah, and because of the supergroup's album releases the band will be on hiatus until at least 2014.[53] With Hellyeah, Gray and Tribbett have recorded three albums: Stampede, Band of Brothers and Blood for Blood.[54] In 2012 Ryan Martinie toured with Korn as a temporary replacement for bassist Reginald Arvizu, who remained home during his wife's pregnancy.[55] The following year Martinie played bass on Kurai's debut EP, Breaking the Broken,[56] and in 2014 Tribbett left Hellyeah.[57]

In a new interview with Songfacts in 2015, Gray said that Mudvayne's return at the moment seems quite unlikely: "I don’t know if the full band will [ever reunite]. Who knows — they might be putting something else together. We were talking for a while and that whole thing with Greg went down and everything kind of fell apart. Our relationship, which was the only truly solid relationship in the group, although Matt [McDonough] and I are still great, Ryan [Martinie] and I still briefly talk. I mean, the only way I personally would want to do Mudvayne is if everybody licked their wounds and got over it. There's a lot of things in that band that tore us apart. Maybe Mudvayne was the martyr for people that stopped supporting music. You sell 159,000 records the first week, and then the next record is like, 'Whatever, f--k it.' Maybe it's a subliminal message if you don't support things... Mudvayne's probably bigger now than it ever was. So, people want what they can't have."[58]

Although Mudvayne was known for its appearance, Gray described its aesthetic as "music first, visuals second".[35] When L.D. 50 was released, the band performed in horror film-style makeup.[26] Epic Records initially promoted Mudvayne without focusing on its members; early promotional materials featured a logo instead of photos of the band, but its appearance and music videos publicized L. D. 50.[26] The members of Mudvayne were originally known by the stage names Kud, sPaG, Ryknow and Gurrg.[21] At the 2001 MTV Video Music Awards (where they won the MTV2 Award for "Dig"), the band appeared in white suits with bloody bullet-hole makeup on their foreheads.[77] After 2002, Mudvayne changed makeup styles (from multicolored face paint to extraterrestrials) and changed their stage names to Chüd, Güüg, Rü-D, and Spüg.[27] According to the band, the extravagant makeup added a visual aspect to their music and set them apart from other metal bands.[78] Since 2003 Mudvayne has largely abandoned makeup, but said that a future return to it is not out of the question.[79]

^ abByrne, Michael (December 10, 2008). "Music: The Short List". Baltimore City Paper. Retrieved January 5, 2009. Well-calculated alterna-metal band Mudvayne makes a whole bunch of money at Rams Head Live with 10 Years and a band called Snot.

^ abD'Angelo, Joe (September 19, 2002). "Mudvayne Reaches The End". MTV.com. Retrieved 2008-12-27. The Peoria, Illinois, progressive metal quartet has named their new album The End of All Things To Come

^Weisblott, Marc (January 21, 2003). "Big With the Kids". The Village Voice. Retrieved January 5, 2009. You know Trapt aren't vying for the affections of neo-prog Mudvayne fanatics when their singer, Chris Brown, feels Genesis got good only after Phil Collins took the mic.

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